GK: Quotations

Here is a short quotations quiz. All interesting ones and I suspect most of them ones that you have heard of at one time or the other. So here goes, who made the following statements?

1. "I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members."

Groucho Marx. Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx (October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977) was an American comedian and film star famed as a master of wit. He made 13 feature films with his brothers, the Marx Brothers.
I have always loved this quote not just for the humour in it but because this works at various levels for me.

2. "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Mark Twain. He is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. His real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

3. “The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”

Oscar Wilde

4. Lady Astor: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Who said in reply: "If I were married to you, I'd drink it."?

Winston Churchill.

5. “It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.”

And though recent, this one is a classic. More about it later when I give out the answers, trust me you know who this person is.
Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton's testimony about his relationship Monica Lewinsky was full of such statements. His defence relied on elaborate definitions of certain words. The whole statement asked in quiz was’ "It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is. If 'is' means 'is and never has been' that's one thing - if it means 'there is none', that was a completely true statement," he said. ;-)

You can view this classic here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XT-l-_3y0

And the usual request: No Googling. ;-)

Happy quizzing

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